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U.S. Indicts North Korean Hackers in Theft of $200 Million

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million in a 2018 ATM cash out scheme targeting a Pakistani bank; and a total of $112 million in virtual currencies stolen between 2017 and 2020 from cryptocurrency companies in Slovenia, Indonesia and New York. Park was previously charged in 2018 in connection with the WannaCry and Sony Pictures attacks. Image: CISA.

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Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten sells access to hacked networks

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According to the experts, the threat actors are merely trying to monetize their efforts selling information that have no intelligence value for the Iranian Government. In late July 2020, Crowdstrike spotted a threat actor associated with PIONEER KITTEN that was attempting to sell access to compromised networks on an underground forum.

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Tianfu Cup 2019 Day 1 – Chinese experts hacked Chrome, Edge, Safari, Office365

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Chinese white hat hackers have a long story of success, they won several international hacking contests in the past, but in 2018 the Chinese government prohibited Chinese experts in participating this kind of competition abroad. According to the organizers , in 2018 hackers earned $1,024,000 for a total of 30 vulnerabilities.

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Data Governance Tools: What Are They? Are They Optional?

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Data governance tools used to occupy a niche in an organization’s tech stack, but those days are gone. The rise of data-driven business and the complexities that come with it ushered in a soft mandate for data governance and data governance tools. Research indicates business leaders recognize the need for data governance tools.

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Chinese LuckyMouse APT has been using a digitally signed network filtering driver in recent attacks

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defense contractors and financial services firms worldwide. In March 2018, security experts at Kaspersky Lab have observed an attack powered by the Chinese APT group, the experts speculate the campaign was started in the fall of 2017. The APT group has been active since at least 2010, the crew targeted U.S.

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First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

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.” Mark Rasch , also former federal prosecutor in Washington, said the SEC is signaling with this action that it intends to take on more cases in which companies flub security governance in some big way. “It’s a win for the SEC, and for First America, but it’s hardly justice,” Rasch said.

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NY Department of Financial Services Issues Reminder for Cybersecurity Filing Deadline

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On January 22, 2018, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) issued a press release reminding entities covered by its cybersecurity regulation that the first certification of compliance with the regulation is due on or prior to February 15, 2018.